What You Need to Know

Never miss a local story.

• If you’re trying to get to Yosemite via El Portal Road in the next few days, you can’t.

• Remember a year ago, when residents at Fresno’s Summerset Apartments went without heat and hot water for weeks? The owner of that place has been ordered to pay $200,000 to the city of Fresno for code violations.

• California water agencies have spent $350 million to get people to replace water-guzzling lawns with drought-friendly landscaping, but was it worth it?

• This story out of South Korea, which involves a presidential scandal, excavating equipment used to ram a gate, a bucket of animal feces, a lost Prada shoe and a former cult leader’s daughter, is legit bonkers. Kudos to everyone involved.

• A Pennsylvania rapper who wrote a song called “Sell Drugz” has been arrested for unpaid parking tickets. Just kidding. It was for selling drugs.

What You Want to Know

• Why are your friends using Facebook to check in at Standing Rock, ND? Did they all decide to go protest the Dakota Access Pipeline without inviting you? Not exactly.